Dmitry Adamsky is professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy and is a head of the B.A. honors track in strategy and decision making at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel. His research interests include international security; cultural approach to international relations; and American, Russian and Israeli national security policies.

Jessica Stern is a lecturer on terrorism at Harvard University and serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. She is the co-author of the book ISIS: The State of Terror alongside J.M. Berger. Stern can be contacted through her publicist Alexis Shanley of Harper Collins.